Childbirth Connection

Transforming Maternity Care

Symposium Leadership List
Symposium Steering Committee
Peter B. Angood, MD

Donna Lynne, DrPH

Senior Advisor on Patient Safety

National Quality Forum

President, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Colorado

Childbirth Connection Board of Directors

Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong, PhD

Elliott Main, MD

Lamaze International Board of Directors

Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Office of
Population Research
Princeton University

Chair, California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative

Director of Obstetric Quality, Sutter Health
Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology, California Pacific
Medical Center

Diane Ashton, MD, MPH

Anne Rossier Markus, JD, PhD, MHS

Deputy Medical Director

March of Dimes

Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs

Associate Research Professor of Health Policy, The
George Washington University School of Public Health
and Health Services

Helen Burstin, MD, MPH

Senior Vice President of Performance Measures
National Quality Forum

Linda Mayberry, PhD, RN, FAAN

Executive Director
Childbirth Connection

Association of Womens Health, Obstetric and Neonatal

Nurses
Associate Adjunct Professor, College of Nursing, New York
University

Suzanne F. Delbanco, PhD

Lynn V. Mitchell, MD, MPH

Maureen P. Corry, MPH

President
Health Care Division
Arrowsight, Inc.

Barbara Fildes, MS, CNM, FACNM

American College of Nurse-Midwives
Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dartmouth
Medical School

Daniel M. Fox, PhD

President Emeritus
Milbank Memorial Fund

Paul A. Gluck, MD
Immediate Past Chair of the Board, National Patient Safety
Foundation
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Sue Leavitt Gullo, RN, MS

Managing Director
Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Joanne Howes
Womens Health Consultant

Rima Jolivet, MSN, CNM, MPH

Associate Director of Programs
Childbirth Connection

Douglas W. Laube, MD
Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public
Health
Past President, American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists

Oklahoma State Medicaid Director

Oklahoma Health Care Authority

Debra L. Ness
President
National Partnership for Women and Families

Rachel Nuzum, MPH

Senior Policy Director
Policy and State Innovations
The Commonwealth Fund

Jeffrey D. Quinlan, MD
Chair, American Academy of Family Physicians Advanced
Life Support in Obstetrics Program Advisory Board
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Uniformed
Services University of Health Sciences

Carol Sakala, PhD, MSPH

Director of Programs
Childbirth Connection

Alina Salganicoff, PhD

Vice President and Director
Womens Health Policy and KaiserEDU.org
Kaiser Family Foundation

Key Informants
Peter B. Angood, MD

Paul Ginsburg, PhD

Vice President and Chief Safety Officer

The Joint Commission

President
Center for Studying Health System Change

Diane Ashton, MD, MPH

Sherry Glied, PhD

Deputy Medical Director

March of Dimes

Department Chair, Health Policy and Management

Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Donald Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP

Paul A. Gluck, MD

President and Chief Executive Officer

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Immediate Past Chair of the Board, National Patient

Safety Foundation
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Obstetrics
and Gynecology, University of Miami Miller School of
Medicine

Maureen Bisognano
Executive Vice President and
Chief Operating Officer
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement

David C. Goodman, MD, MS

Professor of Pediatrics
Dartmouth Medical School

Ned Calonge, MD, MPH

Chief Medical Officer, Colorado Department of Public
Health and Environment
Chair, U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

Janet Hardy, PhD

Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, Medicine
and Pediatrics
University of Massachusetts School of Medicine

Carolyn M. Clancy, MD
Director
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Katherine Hartmann, MD, PhD

Janet M. Corrigan, PhD, MBA

Deputy Director, Institute for Medicine and Public Health

Vice Chair for Research, Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

President and Chief Executive Officer

National Quality Forum

Dee Jeffers, RN, MPH

Karen Davis, PhD

Program Director
Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies
University of South Florida

President
The Commonwealth Fund

Sr. Carol Keehan, DC

Chief Executive Officer and President
Catholic Health Association

Suzanne F. Delbanco, PhD

President
Health Care Division
Arrowsight, Inc.

David Lansky, PhD

Susan Dentzer

President and Chief Executive Officer

Pacific Business Group on Health

Editor-in-chief, Health Affairs

Health Policy Analyst, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

Douglas W. Laube, MD
Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and
Public Health
Past President, American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists

Elise Desjardins, MBA

Program Associate
Grantmakers in Health

Barbara Fildes, MS, CNM, FACNM

Louise Liang, MD

American College of Nurse-Midwives

Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Senior Vice President

Quality and Clinical Systems Support
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan

Daniel M. Fox, PhD

President Emeritus
Milbank Memorial Fund

Charles S. Mahan, MD

Richard Roberts, MD, JD

Dean and Professor Emeritus

University of South Florida Colleges of Public Health and
Medicine
Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies

Treasurer
Board of Trustees
American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation

William M. Sage, MD, JD

Elliott Main, MD

Vice Provost for Health Affairs

James R. Dougherty Chair for Faculty Excellence in
Law
University of Texas at Austin

Chair, California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative

Director of Obstetric Quality, Sutter Health
Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology, California Pacific
Medical Center

Alina Salganicoff, PhD

James Marks, MD, MPH

Vice President and Director

Womens Health Policy and KaiserEDU.org
Kaiser Family Foundation

Senior Vice President and Director

Health Group
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Edward L. Schor, MD

Mark McClellan, MD, PhD

Vice President
The Commonwealth Fund

Director
Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform
The Brookings Institution

Kate Treanor, MSW

Ann Monroe

Program Associate
Grantmakers in Health

President
Community Health Foundation of Western and Central
New York

Lois Uttley, MPP

Director
Merger Watch

Jean Moody-Williams, RN, MPP

Director of Quality, Evaluation and Health Outcomes
Center for Medicaid and State Operations
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Debra L. Ness
President
National Partnership for Women and Families

Margaret OKane
President
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Edward ONeil, MPA, PhD, FAAN

Director
Center for the Health Professions
University of California, San Francisco

Carmen Hooker Odom

President
Milbank Memorial Fund

Donna Petersen, MHS, ScD

Dean
School of Public Health
University of South Florida

Sheila Reynertson, MA
Program Associate
Merger Watch

Vision Team
Martha Cook Carter, CNM, MBA
Chief Executive Officer
FamilyCare Health Center
WomenCare, Inc.

Maureen P. Corry, MPH

Executive Director
Childbirth Connection

Suzanne F. Delbanco, PhD

President
Health Care Division
Arrowsight, Inc

Tina Clark-Samazan Foster, MD, MPH, MS

Associate Professor
Obstetrics and Gynecology and Community and Family
Medicine
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Robert Friedland, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Health Systems Administration
Georgetown University

Robyn Gabel, MSPH

Executive Directive
Illinois Maternal Child Health Coalition

Teresa Gipson, RN, MD

Assistant Professor
Department of Family Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University

Rima Jolivet, CNM, MSN, MPH

Associate Director of Programs
Childbirth Connection

Elliott Main, MD
Chair, California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative
Director of Obstetric Quality, Sutter Health
Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology, California Pacific
Medical Center

Carol Sakala, PhD, MSPH

Director of Programs
Childbirth Connection

Penny Simkin, PT, CD

Author, Doula, Childbirth Educator, Birth Counselor
Faculty, Seattle Midwifery School

Kathleen Rice Simpson, PhD, RNC, FAAN

Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist
St. John's Mercy Medical Center

Stakeholder Workgroup
Maternity Care Clinicians and Health Professions Educators
Chair:
Ned Calonge, MD, MPH

Suzy Myers, CPM, MPH

Chief Medical Officer, Colorado Department of Public

Health and Environment
Chair, U.S. Preventative Services Task Force

Board of Directors, Seattle Midwifery School

Co-founder, Seattle Home Maternity Service and
Childbirth Center

Co-chair:
Douglas W. Laube, MD

Lisa A. Osborne, CRNA, PhD

Research Coordinator
Navy Nurse Corps Anesthesia Program
Naval Medical Center, San Diego

Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,

University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public
Health
Past President, American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists

CDC Liaison:
William M. Callaghan, MD
Division of Reproductive Health,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Members:
Raymond Cox, MD, MBA
Chair of Obstetrics & Gynecology
St. Agnes Hospital
Chair, Maryland Patient Safety Center Perinatal
Collaborative

Karla Damus PhD, MSPH, RN, FAAN

Associate Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women's
Health
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Cecilia Jevitt, CNM, PhD

Assistant Professor, University of South Florida
Region III Representative, American College of NurseMidwives

Valerie King, MD
Associate Professor and Director
OHSU Joint Family Medicine/Public Health and
Preventive Medicine Residency
Oregon Health & Science University

Miriam Labbok, MD, MPH, MMS, FACPM, IBCLC,

FABM
Director
Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute
Department of Maternal Child Health, School of Public
Health
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Mayri Sagady Leslie, CNM, MSN

Instructor
Nurse-Midwifery Program
School of Nursing and Health Studies
Georgetown University

Judith Lothian, PhD, RN

Lamaze Board of Directors
Associate Professor, Seton Hall University

Stakeholder Workgroup
Consumers and their Advocates
Chair:
Judy Norsigian
Executive Director
Our Bodies Ourselves

Co-chair:
Lee Partridge
Health Policy Advisor
National Partnership for Women and Families

Members:
Byllye Avery
President and Chief Executive Officer
Avery Institute for Social Change

Lisa Bernstein
Rebecca Burkholder
Vice President of Health Policy
National Consumers League

Jeanne Watson Driscoll, PhD, RN

President
JWD Associates, Inc.

Liza Fuentes, MPH

Senior Research Associate
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health

Adrienne Hahn, JD
Senior Attorney and Program Manager
Consumers Union

Deven McGraw
Director
Health Privacy Project
Center for Democracy and Technology

Shoshanna Sofaer, DrPH

Robert P. Luciano Professor
of Health Care Policy
Baruch College, School of Public Affairs

Stakeholder Workgroup
Health Plans, Private and Public Payors, and Liability Insurers
Chair:
Lisa Latts, MD, MPH
Vice President
Programs for Clinical Excellence
WellPoint, Inc.

Co-chair:
Susan Tucker, MPH, MBA
Executive Director
Office of Health Services
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Members:
Stephanie Birch, RNC, MPH, MS, FNP
Section Chief, Women's Children's and Family Health
MCH Title V and CSHCN Director, Division of Public Health, Alaska State Department of Health and Social Services

Catherine Hess, MSW

Senior Program Director
National Academy for State Health Policy

Emma Hoo
Director of Value-based Purchasing
Pacific Business Group on Health

Alethia (Lee) Morgan, MD

Risk Manager
COPIC Insurance Company

Kathryn E. Phillips, MPH

Project Manager
Safety Net Medical Home Initiative
Qualis Health

Lauren Raskin Ramos, MPH

Director of Programs
Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

Pamela Stahl
Senior Vice President
Women's Health Line of Service
UnitedHealthcare

Janet (Jessie) Sullivan, MD

Chief Medical Officer
Hudson Health Plan

Gerald Zelinger, MD
Medical Advisor, Center for Medicaid and State Operations
Technical Director, Division of Benefits, Eligibility and Managed Care
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Stakeholder Workgroup
Hospitals, Health Systems and Other Care Delivery Systems
Chair:
Frank Mazza, MD
Chief Patient Safety Officer
Associate Chief Medical Officer
Seton Family of Hospitals

Co-chair:
Tracy Flanagan, MD
Northern California Director of Womens Health
Northern California Chair of OBGYN Chiefs
Kaiser Permanente Medical Group

Members:
Jill Alliman, CNM, MSN
Past President, American Association of Birth Centers
Director, Women's Wellness & Maternity Center

Maribeth Badura, RN, MPH

Director
Division of Healthy Start and
Perinatal Services
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
Health Resources and Services Administration
Department of Health and Human Services

Kathy T. Connolly, RN, MSEd, CPHRM

Managing Principal
Premier Consulting Services

Peg Dublin, RN, MPH

Senior Program Manager
Maternal and Child Health Programs
Access Community Health Network

Roxane Gardner, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor
Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
Harvard Medical School

Ann Geisler, CPCU, AU

Chief Executive Officer
Dean Insurance

Bryan T. Oshiro, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine
Section Chief, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Medical Director, Perinatal Institute, Loma Linda University Medical Center

Carolyn Shepherd, MD
Vice President for Clinical Affairs
Clinica Campesina

Janie Wilson, MS, RN

Operations Director
Women & Newborns Clinical Programs
Intermountain Healthcare

Stakeholder Workgroup
Measurement and Quality Research Experts
Chair:
Barbara Rudolph, PhD, MSSW

Reva Winkler, MD, MPH

Clinical Consultant
National Quality Forum

The Leapfrog Director

Leaps and Measures
Group

Susan Wood, PhD

Co-chair:
Denise Remus, RN, PhD

Interim Director
Jacobs Institute of Womens Health
The George Washington University School of Public
Health and Health Services

Chief Quality Officer

BayCare Health System

John M. Young, MS, MA

Members:
Debra Bingham, DrPH, RN

Acting Director
Division of Quality, Evaluation and Health Outcomes
Family and Children's Health Programs Group
Center for Medicaid and State Operations
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Executive Director
California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative

Kevin Fiscella, MD, MPH

Associate Professor
Family Medicine and Community & Preventive Medicine
University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry

Carol Keohane, RN
Program Director
Center for Excellence for Patient Safety Research
Brigham & Womens Hospital

Denise Love
Executive Director
National Association of Health Data Organizations

Doris Peter, PhD

Manager
Health Initiative
Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center
Consumers Union

Joann Petrini, MPH, PhD

Assistant Director of Original Research, Danbury Hospital
Associate Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Womens
Health

Ciaran Phibbs, PhD

Health Economist, VA Palo Alto Health Care System's
Health Economics Resource Center
Associate, Center for Health Policy/Primary Care
Outcomes Research, Stanford University

Joani Slager, CNM, MSN, CPC

Chair, ACNM Business Section
Director of Nurse-Midwifery, Bronson Womens Service

Barry D. Smith, MD
Professor and Chair Emeritus of Obstetrics and
Gynecology
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

Session Moderators and Discussants by Stakeholder Workgroups

Measurement and Quality Research

Maternity Care Clinicians and Health Professions

Educators

Moderator:
Janet M. Corrigan, PhD, MBA

Moderator:
Douglas W. Laube, MD

President and CEO, National Quality Forum

Discussants:
Harold D. Miller
President and CEO, Network for Regional HealthCare
Improvement
Executive Director, Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment
Reform

Bernard M. Rosof, MD, MACP

Chairman, Physician Consortium for Performance
Improvement
Clinical Professor of Medicine, New York University School of
Medicine

Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,

University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public
Health
Past President, American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists

Discussants:
William A. Grobman, MD, MBA
Associate Professor, Departments of Obstetrics and
Gynecology and Preventive Medicine, and Institute for
Health Care Studies, Northwestern University Medical
School

Holly Powell Kennedy, PhD, CNM, FACNM,

FAAN
Helen Varney Professor of Midwifery, Yale School of
Nursing

Hospitals, Health Systems

and Other Care Delivery Models

Lawrence Leeman, MD, MPH

Moderator:
Paul A. Gluck, MD
Immediate Past Chair of the Board, National Patient Safety
Foundation
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Associate Professor, Departments of Family and

Community Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology,
University of New Mexico

Health Plans, Private and Public

Purchasers and Liability Insurers

Discussants:
Ruth Nolan, PhDc, RNC
Vice President for Operations, Women's Health Services Line,
Geisinger Health System

Moderator:
Daniel M. Fox, PhD
President Emeritus, Milbank Memorial Fund

Kyu Rhee, MD, MPP, FAAP, FACP

Chief Public Health Officer, Health Resources and Services
Administration

Discussants:
Mary C. Goessler, MD, MPM

Stephen C. Schoenbaum, MD, MPH

Executive Vice President for Programs, The Commonwealth
Fund
Executive Director, The Commonwealth Fund Commission on
a High Performance Health System

Medical Director, Quality and Medical Performance

Management, Highmark Inc.

Mark Gibson
Deputy Director, Center for Evidence-Based Policy,
Oregon Health & Science University

David Lansky, PhD

President and Chief Executive Officer, Pacific Business
Group on Health

William M. Sage, MD, JD

Vice Provost for Health Affairs and James R. Dougherty
Chair for Faculty Excellence in Law, School of Law,
University of Texas at Austin

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Consumers and Their Advocates

Moderator:
Susan Dentzer
Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs
Health Policy Analyst, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

Discussants:
Elizabeth Imholz, JD
Special Projects Director, Consumers Union

Anat Shenker-Osorio
Communications Consultant

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